SEATTLE — An Alaska Airlines spokeswoman says a flight from Juneau, Alaska, reported experiencing a laser strike late Thursday night as it approached Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The plane landed safely with 75 people on board.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Officials at a Washington state zoo say a much-loved 33-year-old walrus has died after surgery.

The News Tribune reports that the Pacific walrus named E.T. didn’t recover from anesthesia Thursday after a two-hour surgery to drain an abscess in his neck.

Dr. Karen Wolf of the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma says E.T. had been ill for weeks with a serious bacterial infection, had not eaten for more than two weeks and suffered from painful arthritis.

LOS ANGELES — An Alaska Airlines plane carrying 159 passengers made a safe emergency landing in Los Angeles after it was struck by lightning.

Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the flight left Los Angeles International Airport around 12:40 p.m. Saturday and returned within the hour. The flight had been heading to Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.

Egan says passengers on board didn’t feel anything when the lightning struck, and that the Boeing 737 is designed to withstand lightning.

ANCHORAGE — A 27-year-old Anchorage man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 2013 crime spree that left three people severely injured.

Alejandro Aulman was sentenced Thursday for nine counts of assault, seven counts of robbery, three counts of burglary and one count of theft. He was handed an additional two years for breaking his probation conditions from separate cases, reported The Alaska Dispatch News.

ANCHORAGE — A Superior Court judge erred when he rejected a plea agreement for a man who injured his infant son, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled in a decision released Friday.

Superior Court Judge Philip Volland incorrectly rejected the plea agreement as too lenient, with a presumptive sentence of one to three years, in the 2014 case because prosecutors chose not to pursue aggravating factors, Appeals Court judges said.

There are two things helping Michelle Ramsey and her family get through losing her sister, pilot Fariah Peterson, in a Friday plane crash 18 miles from Juneau.

“Yes, our family is grieving, but it gives us great consolation that she died doing what she loved to do,” Ramsey said by phone Saturday. “And she set that plane down some sort of way that it didn’t kill everyone on board.”